Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Eric -- This is a pretty interesting idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup." Lean is one of the major trends shaping our world, and its impact goes beyond just optimizing our supply chains.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management." I dont think so.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Sometime later, a guide would rattle off useful information, like the density of cars in the immediate vicinity, how that density compares to historical averages, the average mass and velocity of recent cars. For a lean startup , this lack of discipline is anathema. Is that a good substitute for vision? It required two things.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. I have come to believe that there is a hierarchy of pitches, and that understanding where your pitch falls on this spectrum can assist in making decisions about what information to highlight. Expo SF (May. .

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JUNE 17, 2010

But scope negotiations between departments are an example of an “iterated prisoner’s dilemma&# situation, where the same parties repeatedly negotiate, and rely on their previous experience to inform their choices in the current round. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. A similar relationship applies to technical debt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. .

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AUGUST 8, 2009

During the course of implementing a design, new information will arise, which many times will change the original design. The kinds of "new information" in the quote above are implementation details. When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

(For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.) But in the meantime, by iterating on their product with customers, they have a chance to get there on their own. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. The key tools of this new marketing are: targeting, filtering, and customer insight. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Thanks for the comments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). I agree with the other comments, more information on yourself and what topics youll focus on would be helpful. More of the same. 9 - Retweeted "2."

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. By shipping software early, you give them continuous feedback about how it well its working. Any advise on how the decision to rewrite may change for lean startups? Expo SF (May. .

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APRIL 26, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, April 26, 2010 Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 I can barely write, as Im still recovering from the amazing but overwhelming Startup Lessons Learned conference last Friday (great summary here ). Want to learn more about lean startups? Details are below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

, it seemed time to return to the subject of investigating who my customers are. Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. No customers understood what that meant. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. The ultimate goal of a lean startup is to identify where its vision intersects with what reality can accommodate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. “We don’t give you all this Pro plan information right away when you join SlideShare.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 4, 2010 Stop lying on stage Entrepreneurs crave information about successful startups, and they should. This is the same issue we see with vanity metrics : companies are giving the appearance of sharing information while actually engaging in spin or outright deception.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Nice post Eric thanks for sharing such useful information with us. "Selling information you research, into well-constructed, content-rich PDF files for $6 is a great way of getting the contacts you need to [get a minimal viable product for SAS]. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 24, 2010

In fact, when I crossed the five subscriber threshold, I was moved to write about my excitement and about the advantages of having a pathetically small number of customers. And, in the survey that was attached, I learned a lot of useful information about how to make this blog better. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

When those teams face difficult choices, its incredibly hard for them to come together and make an informed, fact-based decision. When those teams face difficult choices, its incredibly hard for them to come together and make an informed, fact-based decision. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

I freely admit that I have no inside information, no unique insight into what they are thinking. I believe that t he Lean Startup is the first such comprehensive entrepreneurship theory. I freely admit that I have no inside information, no unique insight into what they are thinking. But these are still early days.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The idea is to develop something with the minimum amount of features or information needed to gauge the marketability of a product online. It might also involve buying pay-per-click ads to see how easy it is to gain potential customers. The Inc story, and many others, does a good job emphasizing its lean-ness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Take a cohort of new customers and expose them to a completely different approach, and measure their behavior over time. Use that data to make an informed choice about whether you want to change strategies. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 8comments: Anonymoussaid.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

As for a topic Im particularly interested in, Id be curious about partnerships: the type of formal or informal relationships one tech co has with another in terms of either cross marketing or integrating each others products. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

This blog is very informative for me. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. The lean startup focuses on situations where we have both an unknown problem and an unknown solution.

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JULY 31, 2009

lets you post a description of a job without having to reveal the name of the company who is offering it, or the contact information of the hiring manager. The actual exchange of information occurs in private, in email. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" When I try to unpack what people mean by the question, heres my best take on what they are asking: "Look, Steve Jobs doesnt go out and ask customers what they want. He tells customers what they want, and he gets it right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Need some isight into this if you have any information. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

That was one of the most informative post I've ever read. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Thanks for sharing your stories along the way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The advantage of sharing this information widely is that it gives everyone insight into the kinds of problems the team is facing, but also insight into how those problems are being tackled. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. Expo SF (May.

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